This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Poetrooper

  • A Democrat Wart Deep in the Heart of Texas

    If ever there existed a better example of shooting one’s self in the foot than what Rosemary Lehmberg, the Democrat district attorney of Travis County, Texas, did over this weekend, I cannot recall it in my seven decades. We are aware that in facing the coming election the Democrat party is becoming frantic but we didn’t think it had advanced to the need for self-immolation.

    But, liar, liar, set herself on fire is precisely what that desperate Democrat did when her special prosecutor indicted Texas governor, Rick Perry, for carrying out his constitutionally-determined, gubernatorial responsibilities. From the moment the indictment was announced, the Internet was treated to devastating video recordings of the drunken driving arrest in Austin last year of the self-same Rosemary Lehmberg, stopped by her own cops after weaving in a potentially deadly manner into oncoming traffic as well as the lane reserved for particularly vulnerable bicyclists. On the front seat next to Rosemary was a partially consumed bottle of vodka, one of the dozens making up the 23 gallons she has reportedly consumed in the past 15 months.

    Rosie was, in the vernacular, sh*t-faced, blowing a breathalyzer at almost three times the legal limit. And now, thanks to the miracle of the world-wide web, the whole planet is availed of the opportunity to witness Rosie’s self-destructive behavior upon initial apprehension, as well as her aggressive and threatening responses to being treated by authorities as what she clearly was, a mean, stubborn, uncooperative drunk operating a motor vehicle under such self-impairment as to present a clear and present danger to the citizens she is sworn to protect and serve.

    Go here if you haven’t already and see what the immature but staunch Democrat majority in Travis County thinks is a suitable representative of their party to enforce their laws. This gross, vulgar creature could be a poster child for what the Democrat party has become: a power-hungry political vulture that has completely lost sight of what the once great and respectable Democrat Party of Texas at one time stood for. Their big gun to knock Rick Perry out of the 2016 presidential campaign is this slovenly, decadent, drunken, district attorney who is apparently shameless, as she had to know these videos, up to now mostly confined to Texas, would go viral.

    Democrats enjoy an island of influence in the otherwise red, Republican Texas, in Travis County, home of the Texas capital, for one reason and one reason only, the University of Texas and its radicalized campus that festers as some sort of malignant growth deep in the heart of Texas. It’s not as lethal as in a melanoma, but more like an annoying, unsightly wart. Look at those videos of Rosemary Lehmberg, the very best the Democrats have to offer in their fight against Texas Republicans, and tell me I’m wrong in believing that this woman is exactly that, an extremely annoying, but ultimately harmless political wart Deep in the Heart of Texas. Rosie, you just got your fifteen minutes of fame and, Sweetie, hate to tell ya, they ain’t pretty.

    But then again, considering that you’re a Democrat, you just could be presidential material…

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • So Just Why Is John Kerry Secretary of State?

    So Just Why Is John Kerry Secretary of State?

    Did not anyone in the Obama administration give any consideration to how the rest of the world might perceive John Kerry as the anointed representative of our nation’s views before they sent him out there to screw up all the rest of those things Hillary didn’t? Did they not suppose that intelligence agencies around the world charged with the responsibility of rooting into the most intimate details of the lives, careers and loyalties of American leaders and diplomats with whom their leaders may have to interact, could have missed the salient and salacious details of John Kerry’s bizarre background?

    Anyone want to wager that the North Vietnamese don’t have amplified tapes of every single word of their unauthorized negotiations with young Jean Fraud in the Paris Peace Accords when he was eagerly flushing his country down Parisian toilettes to further his own political ambitions? And of course, having America’s best interests at heart, those wiley Asian communists would never, ever trade that possibly advantageous information with any other government inimical to American diplomatic interests, now would they? Oh, of course not.

    And surely, none of the countries our clueless Obama has dispatched his ethically emasculated emissary out to treat with has ever compiled a dossier on this self-promoting turncoat, have they? Surely they took no note of the his political opportunism when he leveraged four months of highly dubious combat experience in Vietnam to first denounce his fellow American warriors as war criminals, then years later, used that very same experience to report for duty as the presidential nominee of the political party that seems to have a strange affinity for Jane Fonda type traitors. Nah, those foreigners wouldn’t pick up on that crass hypocrisy now would they?

    Likewise, they surely paid no attention to the fact once exposed by his fellow sailors as a phony, glory-seeking opportunist, the presidential candidate blustered mightily that he would open his military records to the world while threatening legal action against those who were flaying his phony combat records into shreds. But then, post-election, he shrank quietly into the political swamp of lost campaigners and his blusters became but faint bubbles in the leftist media.

    Truth is John Kerry has never to this day opened his records nor has he sued anyone. He likely had the best defamatory damages case of any plaintiff in the history of jurisprudence, the loss of the most powerful office in the world. Except for the troublesome reality that truth is a rock solid defense against such a defamatory tort action and John knew those Swift Boat guys had truth on their side. Also, it has been speculated that he did not want the public to see that he may have been issued a less than honorable discharge for his traitorous activities in treating with the North Vietnamese in Paris when he was a junior reserve naval officer, a discharge later commuted to honorable by Jimmy Carter as part of his broad amnesty for Vietnam draft-dodgers. No, those foreign intelligence agencies surely wouldn’t have included that information in their assessments of this man’s possible weak points and vulnerabilities at any negotiations table would they?

    And lastly, we can rest assured that those nations around the globe wondering and assessing just what weaknesses may be exploitable in negotiating with the once-mighty United States, would never, ever give any thought to the personal vanity of a man who in his seventh decade would completely restructure his physiognomy by expensive, artificial means like some aging Hollywood diva praying to stay lively and lovely in the limelight. And then of course lie about the obvious fact that such surgery occurred. But then there is one advantage to America: Sitting across a negotiating table from John Kerry, how are you going to read that face unless you’re a plastic surgeon? But seriously, they couldn’t possibly attribute such a significant personal decision to an excessive vanity and immaturity that could offer them any advantage in sophisticated foreign intelligence operations now could they?

    Think about all the above and the consider that the Obama administration and the Democrat party actually feel comfortable that this very flawed, dishonest and contemptible man is the best they can put forward to represent and negotiate our nation’s best interests around this globe. If you’ve never thought about this before, trust me, the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the North Koreans, Al Qaeda and every other entity out there with interests opposite our own certainly have been devoting huge intelligence resources to determine how best to manipulate this bumbling gift America has presented them. The Democrat party may not care what kind of incompetent charlatans they put forward to represent our nation in this troubled world, but our enemies most assuredly do. With an indolent, inept and clueless community organizer in the White House and a frozen-faced, phony war hero/gigolo and tax cheat out there as his sock puppet, why do you think the once respected America is being mocked and disrespected around the world?

    So just why the Hell is John Kerry our Secretary of State?

  • A Diaper Defense

    First let me take a few paragraphs to clear the decks for those of you who will read the following and perhaps brand me an insensitive monster. I left Vietnam in 1966 with symptoms of PTSD even though at that time there was no such diagnosis; that entire concept and concern would come later, years too late for me. Like the warriors returning from WWII, I was left to work it out on my own. My therapy was to get a job and go back to college followed shortly by marrying the beautiful West Texas girl who is with me still a half century later.

    Military psychiatry had diagnoses from earlier wars such as battle stress and combat fatigue, neither of which applied to me. In Vietnam, the only warriors I know who might qualify for such a diagnosis were the Marines at Khe Sanh who endured continual bombardment for months. That didn’t apply to me, an infantry NCO who spent endless boring days searching for the enemy that occasionally were interrupted by brief but intense and deadly firefights when we finally found them. Those sweeps and patrols were interspersed with break periods back within the wire of our base camp where we usually had sufficient time to wind down from the needle-pricking tension and excitement, even exhilaration, of engaging the enemy we’d been sent to find and destroy.

    But there was one combat experience that was simply too hard to dispel from your mind once you’d witnessed it. While back in the rear we’d sit and drink and boast of blowing Charley’s ass all to hell, the one conversation that never occurred was that of the horrible outcome of war on the civilian populace, especially the women and children. The horrible things which the Viet Cong and NVA did to those Vietnamese whom they considered disloyal or simply neutral were not uncommon events; once witnessed by Western eyes, they got locked away and never talked about simply because there was no way to start such an unholy conversation, much less talk it through and talk it out. The only good thing that can be said of those atrocities is that they inspired us to hunt down and kill the ruthless bastards who had done such horrible things to the innocents.

    So, denied and undiscussed, it stayed locked up in our minds, pushed away, intentionally ignored and unsuccessfully denied. That was the PTSD that I and untold numbers of others brought home with us from that war. It took decades to push it so far back that it didn’t trouble us anymore but as I tap this keyboard, it is coming to the fore, thankfully without the power over me it once had.

    So those are my bonafides to have and offer an opinion on the events taking place now in Gaza where my soldierly instincts tell me that the warriors experiencing what I just described are those of the Israeli Defense Forces while the perpetrators of atrocities against civilians are the same forces that we have witnessed for decades being incredibly cruel and inhuman, both to their captured enemies and their own civilian populations. Like our Vietnamese foe, these jihadists (I can’t bring myself to call them warriors) seem to relish the fear they engender among their own populations with demonstrations of extremely callous and uncaring destruction of civilians.

    Where Hamas and other jihadist groups take it a step farther than the Vietnamese usually did, is that they are the very ones who make the destruction of civilians happen by their placement of their offensive weapons systems in places where any humanitarian nation will have second thoughts about attacking them. There is plenty of evidence to show that Hamas uses private homes, schools, and hospitals to shield their weapons placements and their operations.

    The easiest way to say it is that they hide behind the skirts and diapers of those they profess to love. Worse, once civilian casualties have occurred, these monsters video the results and broadcast them to the world as evidence of their enemy committing atrocities against their women and children even though they are the ones who invited destruction upon them. The world is treated to endless visions of lifeless children being mourned by the same Islamic males whose religious fanaticism and unbridled hatred of Jews brought about those very same deaths.

    And the liberal idiots, the useful idiots, the anti-Semitic leftist media breathlessly report all the Hamas propaganda as legitimate news of Israeli atrocities. Unfortunately for them, there are far too many old soldiers, all around the world, whose lives have led them down this tragic path before and who aren’t fooled by the amateurish misinformation being disseminated by these soulless jihadi pigs. No matter the legitimacy of your political claim, if you deliberately arrange the killing of the innocent, especially the children, you are a despicable pig undeserving of the least mercy from the IDF when they catch you and blow you and your Diaper Defense all the way to hell.

  • Another Dem War Hero

    My reaction to the revelation that Democrat senator John Walsh, a retired brigadier general and one-time adjutant general (head) of Montana’s National Guard, had plagiarized much of his master’s thesis at the Army’s Command and General Staff War College was similar to that of most veterans. I felt a queasy disgust, not so much at the offense but at his attempt to blame it on PTSD. For an officer of his seniority and long military experience to try to weasel out of an embarrassing exposure of his lack of professional and academic ethics by falsely claiming the stress of battle made him do it, is a huge disservice to all those warriors who, due to their combat experiences, truly are dealing with the very real debilities of post-traumatic stress disorder. My assessment as an old former infantry NCO is that this guy isn’t much of a leader. Reading comments around the internet from soldiers who served under him reinforces that belief.

    Those of us who try to stay attuned to developments in the veteran community are keenly aware that PTSD is all too often the first defense thrown up by those phony veterans claiming military service and valorous awards for service and deeds never rendered, once they are exposed, or it is part of their original scam to milk public sympathy. These frauds, most who have never served and the rest actual veterans foolishly trying to add some macho glamour to their military record, are such a prevalent phenomenonin America today that they’ve earned their very own federal criminal statute, the Stolen Valor Act of 2013.

    That a United States Senator throws in with that legion of losers as soon as his own Stolen Valor is exposed says a lot about his lack of devotion to the troops he actually led in combat, some of whom no doubt are suffering the real effects of PTSD. Why don’t you just steal their wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs while you’re usurping their emotional wounds for your phony defense, Senator? And yes, I know, you’re trying to backtrack now but your first defensive instinct is what is so telling.

    Now, while Democrats are rallying ‘round another of their tarnished war heroes, we hear that the Army Command and General Staff College is opening an investigation of your possible cheating. That became much more interesting to me when I read an excerpt from a Google Book edited by Douglas Higgins, titled Military Culture and Education: Current Intersections of Academic and Military Cultures which contains this very interesting observation regarding the very real seriousness of the offense of plagiarism in a military academic setting.

    Academic misconduct is also covered by the UCMJ. Plagiarism is significantly less prevalent among CGSC students. When plagiarism is suspected, however, the procedures involved are significantly more serious than in a civilian setting. If a written assignment aroused my curiosity at the university — or even the seminary, I would call a student in for an informal discussion. At CGSC faculty are required to have an active-duty officer of greater rank than the student involved present to read the student their legal rights under article 15-6 of the UCMJ prior to that conversation. Depending on the circumstances and severity, an investigative board may be formed and — theoretically at least — a student could face the “long course”: confinement in the Disciplinary Barracks, or military prison, at Fort Leavenworth. Here plagiarism is literally a crime. (Emphasis mine.)

    Perhaps the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which has jumped to the senator’s defense, should pause for a moment and consider that last sentence from the above quote:

    Here plagiarism is literally a crime.

    That might also give some pause to his former running mate and now Montana governor, Steve Bullock, who has been staunchly supportive of a man he perhaps doesn’t know quite as well as he thought. The Dems attempts to whitewash a possible military crime by one of their own is typical.

    And this is for you, John Walsh: you are now numbered among those who have Stolen Valor. You knowingly allowed the Army to confer upon you a master’s degree that you had not honestly earned. If the successful completion of that course contributed to your promotion to brigadier general then that rank was falsely attainedand your promotion should be rescinded. And because you benefitted financially by the higher pay grade of your fraudulently achieved rank, you have brought yourself under the jurisdiction of the Stolen Valor Act of 2013, which makes it a crime for a person to fraudulently claim having received any of a series of particular military decorations with the intention of obtaining money, property, or other tangible benefit from convincing someone that he or she rightfully did receive that award. If a court should deem your master’s degree from the War College to be an award or decoration, enhancing promotion, you could be prosecuted.

    Or, because you’re a Democrat and now have demonstrably phony military credentials, your party might now be looking at you as future presidential material like Jean Fraud Kerry.

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Another Creative Example of Conservative Recycling

    I must confess that I once knocked newspaper advice columnist, Heloise, flat on her butt. There was no intent to do so but we happened to intersect with our shopping carts in a Sam’s Club in San Antonio at precisely the wrong moment for that lovely lady. In any event, I did in fact knock her from her feet onto a low display of something in large, relatively soft burlap bags so that, thankfully, she suffered no injury. I helped her to her feet, apologizing profusely for my inattentiveness, and then went on my way. I knew who she was but I didn’t want get into any kind of celebrity slobbering thing with her. She was shopping for her family as was I and I had no intention of intruding on her private life.

    That said, Heloise had previously put one of my ideas in her column which in effect proved her advice in a prior column to be wrong. Earlier, she had stated unequivocally in one of her columns that all, absolutely all and every old toothbrush, must be destroyed because it might harbor contagious disease forms and represent a household threat. I had written to Heloise, identifying myself as an old paratrooper and combat infantry NCO and explained to her that in six years of infantry service that the only time I ever threw away an old toothbrush was when the bristles were down to the nub. I told her that when I was ordered to Vietnam back in 1965, I packed all the toothbrushes I’d been saving for just such a mission and yes, those brushes served me well.

    In all its years of existence up to that time, the United States Army had never come up with a better all-purpose weapons and equipment cleaning tool than a simple toothbrush. Through what soldiers call field expediency, which means using whatever is available to accomplish your mission, those warriors in the light infantry, and no soldier goes into combat in more of a light infantry status than a paratrooper, learned that a couple or more of old toothbrushes were exceptionally desirable tools to have in a combat environment.

    However, that was not the toothbrush role I proposed to Heloise after she had written her column advising their mass destruction. I submitted to her the reality that a toothbrush could be cleansed of bacteria with a simple dip into some household bleach and after that, the potential uses of that small brush were endless.

    I listed several as I recall but then I revealed the absolute very best use I ever have found for an old toothbrush. One day, decades after my military service, I was sitting at my computer when one of our several felines came in and began threading her way through my legs. I saw an old toothbrush on my desk kept nearby for keyboard cleaning, picked it up and began stroking her head from under her chin to the tops of her ears. Within a couple of minutes, she was all mine, purring ecstatically and tilting her little face up for more. Based on that success, I tried it with every one of our kitties and all responded the same way. Eureka! Ol’ Russ had discovered the Kitty Facial.

    Shortly thereafter I sent Heloise a suggestion that she advise her readers that instead of destroying all those old toothbrushes, she should alert them to their potential value in giving kitty facials. Instead of being just another piece of plastic to go into the landfill, an old toothbrush could be the source of much pleasure for a kitty and its owner. In a future column, she did precisely that. You who own cats should try it. You’ll see very quickly that a simple toothbrush can become a source of endless pleasure to your little feline family and to you as well as a dispenser of so much pleasure. It is one of those opportunities in life to be a giver of pleasure to a creature you love with minimal effort. We have no dogs but I will wager that Ol’ Shep will respond the same way little kitty does.

    OK you libs out there who delight in accusing conservatives of being heartless and unconcerned about our environment, how’s this for a creative and humanitarian example of recycling?

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Braley Showing Democrat Presidential Qualities

    Iowa congressman Bruce Braley, a 2014 Senate candidate, is demonstrating that he may possess precisely those qualities Democrats seem to find so attractive in their presidents.

    We’ve known for a while that Braley holds fellow trial lawyers in much higher esteem than America’s farmers. According to a Des Moines Register report back in March:

    “If you help me win this race,” Braley says in the video, posted online by a donor after the Jan. 23 fundraiser in Corpus Christi, Texas and released today by the conservative America Rising PAC, “you may have someone with your background, your experience, your voice, someone’s who’s been literally fighting tort reform for 30 years in a visible and public way on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

    “Or you might have a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school, never practiced law, serving as the next chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee,” Braley says. “Because if Democrats lose the majority, Chuck Grassley will be the next chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”

    Even in a room full of like-minded opponents of tort reform, some well-lubed on adult beverages, that was such a bone-headed thing to say that even Slate called it “The Gaffe of the Year.” It almost sounds like something you’d hear on an FBI recording from a Mafia summit in Apalachin, most particularly that “literally fighting tort reform for 30 years,” which surely caught the attention of Iowa’s medical community and corporations and insurers everywhere, traditionally the three most frequent victims of litigation abuse.

    Not satisfied with ticking off all those folks, as well as all those Iowa farmers, Braley has once again shown that he’s cut from similar cloth as what one finds in that other tone-deaf lawyer – the one in the White House (or is it Martha’s Vineyard)? According to the Des Moines Register, Braley has been a no-show at 15 out of the 20 Veterans Oversight Committee meetings he was supposed to attend, the most recent being last week. My first thought was that perhaps he was too busy serving his national trial lawyer constituency, out there bravely battling tort reform on their behalf. But no, as the saying goes, follow the money.

    Truth is, Braley skipped that last pesky veterans committee to attend three Washington fundraisers for his senate campaign. That feat may well earn him some presidential admiration, or more likely envy. While the committee’s minutes have Braley present, the Register reports that the video record of the meeting shows his seat unoccupied throughout, which means that not only is he unconcerned about the affairs of veterans in the midst of a Veterans Administration crisis, but he’s devious enough to get himself signed in without showing up, or showing up just long enough to sign in and then sneaking off to raise campaign money. Now you must admit, folks, that kind of system-gaming assuredly demonstrates future Democrat presidential talent.

    To prove my premise, Braley has the endorsement of this Democrat trial lawyer, whose sterling character and impeccable honesty also reflect the qualifications their party so cherishes.

    Now if he just had some Purple Hearts…

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Malice, Incompetence, or Malcompetence?

    Every time American Thinker posts am article condemning the incompetence of the Obama administration (as one of mine did recently), the comments sections are rife with contempt for the authors for ascribing to incompetence what to those readers is a truly Machiavellian, leftist scheme to undermine the greatness of America. And every time some reader labels me politically correct (a quite laughable charge as anyone who knows this knuckle-dragger can attest) or politically naïve, I’m reminded of the adage, “Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by ineptitude.”

    I’d always heard that was a Napoleon quote but curiosity drove me to a Google search where I learned that the adage actually bears several names, the most recent being Hanlon’s Razor (possibly better known as “Heinlein’s Razar”), an obvious play on Occam’s Razor. It is also known as Finagle’s Law of Negative Dynamics or Finagle’s corollary to Murphy’s Law. Older versions of the same theme go back as far as Goethe’s, “…misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At all events the two latter are at less frequent occurrence.” Arthur C. Clarke authored the closely related Grey’s Law: “Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” And yes, apparently Napoleon did make this same observation regarding human behavior. But my favorite is from Margaret Thatcher’s press secretary, a witty Brit named Bernard Ingham, who phrased it “Cock-up before conspiracy.”

    Getting back to the particular incompetent in question, Barack Obama, my own thinking is that many of the cock-ups during his tenure are in fact the products of a ruthless, hard-left, political intent to “fundamentally change America” while rewarding his friends and punishing his enemies. However, these plotstoo frequently turn out to be far less effective than they were intended because of the ineptitude of Obama and his minions in carrying them out. Their programs may well be hatched with a devious Cloward-Piven strategy and goal in mind, but their inability to effectively implement their schemes results in continuing Keystone Kops cock-ups.

    Do those of you who attribute all of the Obama scandals solely to malice, honestly believe Obama and Holder wanted Fast and Furious to blow up in their faces? Did Barry and Hilly really want to appear as clueless and unresponsive in Benghazi as subsequent revelations have made them out to be? Or how about the IRS cock-up; don’t you really suppose that they would rather that their heavy hand had not been caught in that cookie jar of corruption? Recall how desperately they tried to keep it contained to Cincinnati. Or how about this VA mess which most certainly does appear to have a Cloward-Piven result, even if unintended? And of course, the most colossal of the cock-ups has to be ObamaCare, which has to be the biggest administrative bungle in the history of bungling. Remember that the Democrats used every trick in their bag to get that bill enacted. And you believe they did that just so they could look like incompetent fools when it rolled out as it did? Was the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision a product of world-class scheming? Because of that particular, ongoing cock-up, the Democrats may very well lose the Senate this November. It’s difficult to believe that losing control of the Senate and thus imperiling the remainder of the Obama presidency was the planned goal behind the catastrophic rollout of Obamacare.

    I do happen to agree that the current mess on the border is an Obama-caused disaster, one with a true Cloward-Piven motive driving it. But once again, their clumsy and imperious implementation is angering far more Americans than it is rallying to the cause of immigration reform. Look who’s coming out of that nasty cock-up looking presidential: Texas Governor, Rick Perry, not that pool-playing fool in the White House.

    Ditto the entire foreign policy scene. Remember sly Barry promising the Russians he’d have more flexibility following his re-election? First he had to live through the embarrassment of being caught on an open mike and cameras selling out his country, but now he has to live with Reset and Red Line jokes and the almost daily embarrassing examples of Vladimir Putin schooling him in the finer points of world strategy before a watching world. Barry’s out on the course practicing his putt while Putin’s putting Russian bases back in Cuba, which constitutes about the biggest diplomatic middle finger one can imagine. Remember that it was Khrushchev’s contempt for the callow John Kennedy that emboldened the Russian leader to begin erecting the Berlin Wall and to position IRBM’s in Cuba back in the 60s. Perhaps you could argue malice is behind this foreign policy bungling but do you really believe Obama wants to be not just the first black president but also the first president ever to be impeached and removed from office?

    Do not discount that possibility, for at the rate Obama is alienating Americans, even more and more Democrats, the required two-thirds vote in the Senate to convict on an impeachment charge from the House could be a possibility if the Republicans take the Senate and Obama continues to lose Democrat support as he’s doing now. Too many Democrats may be leftist loons but many working-class Democrats are patriots who do not want to see their country lose its place as a world leader, politically, economically, or militarily. Even some Democrat political leaders will reach a point where they will not sit idly by while their party leader destroys their nation through his incompetence… or malice.

    Maybe we should call it malcompetence: incompetence magnified by malevolent intent.

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • He Raised Funds, Funds, Funds, Till the Baddies Took the Free World Away

    This almost seems like the premise from some nutty left-wing television series about a devil may care president who exploits all the benefits of the office for himself and his family while blithely dodging and weaving from any and every presidential responsibility. Likely it would make an entertaining bit of liberal fluff on the tube, but the hard reality of the lax international leadership we are witnessing with this incompetent occupant of our White House is the hard reality of the other power players around the world rising up to bite America and the entire free world square in the butt, with, don’t kid yourself, our jugular being the ultimate target.

    Europe could be inching toward a third World War over the situation in the Ukraine and Israel is embroiled once again in major ground combat with the terrorist forces in Palestine. Russia has just announced its intention to give a big middle finger to the Monroe Doctrine and our hapless president along with it. An airliner has been shot down over Ukraine with almost 300 passengers and crew on board including 23 Americans, and where is the man charged with representing the interests of the American people? He’s at a Democrat fund raiser.

    America owes an apology to all those folks who maintained that Barack Obama was a clueless puppet who had no qualifications for the job and no idea what to do with it once it was confirmed upon him by powers we do not yet understand. There is no question that he was well chosen and well groomed,, but there is equally no question that the smoothly-polished politico presented to the American public is undeniably devoid of substance. His Democrat backers wanted a token black figure head and they got one; in the process they committed immeasurable harm against black Americans, proving once again the aberration of affirmative action and doing so at the very highest level possible.

    Now here we are America in a very dangerous world where every uninformed foreign affairs gambit by this incompetent leader has led us further down the dark path of drowning out the light of what was once the most brilliant beacon of freedom and accomplishment in the world. Someday the Democrat party may celebrate Barack Obama as their greatest orator and fundraiser:

    Who raised funds, funds, funds till the baddies took the Free World away…

    Crossposted at American Thinker